French police have made 150 raids since the Paris attacks and found a rocket launcher in Lyon overnight

Police
react to a suspicious vehicle near La Carillon restaurant
following a series of deadly attacks in Paris, November 15,
2015.REUTERS/Pascal
Rossignol

PARIS — French police officers raided homes of suspected Islamist
militants across the country overnight in the aftermath of the
Paris shootings, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on
Monday as he warned of potential further attacks.

Valls said that since this summer, French intelligence services
had prevented five attacks.

"We know that more attacks are being prepared, not just against
France but also against other European countries," Valls said on
RTL radio.

Police sources told Reuters that authorities conducted at least
110 house searches in cities around France overnight. One of
these searches, in the Paris suburb of Bobigny, was part of the
judicial investigation into the attacks at a football stadium,
bars, and a concert hall where at least 129 people died.

French police made 23 arrests and seized assault rifles and drugs
in a nationwide overnight sweep on suspected Islamist militants
following Friday's attacks, the government said.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 168 homes were raided in
France's major cities and elsewhere, and 104 people had been put
under house arrest in the last 48 hours.

Police seized 31 firearms as well as computer hard drives and
telephones, and illegal drugs were found in 18 of the raids,
Cazeneuve told journalists.

One Islamist militant suspected of arms and drugs dealing was
found to have Kalashnikov assault rifles, automatic handguns and
bullet proof vests.

In one raid on the house of the parents of a suspect, police
found military fatigues and a rocket launcher in addition to more
bullet proof vests and automatic handguns.

According to the French TV news channel BFMTV, Valls announced
that more than 150 searches had taken place since the state of
emergency was announced on Friday.